Word: muslim
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THANKS TO A HUGE INFUSION OF MONEY AND ARMAMENTS FROM friendly Islamic nations like Iran and Libya, the fundamentalist government of SUDAN seems to be on the verge of winning its 10-year civil war against the Sudanese People's Liberation Army. But there may be more than simple Muslim solidarity behind the aid to the continent's largest country. According to African-based diplomats, the Arab states think the southern region of Sudan, now held by the rebels, could serve as a possible homeland for the Palestinian diaspora. Observers note that Yasser Arafat was returning to Libya from...
Saving an endowed faculty post in Indo-Muslim culture was stressed as an important goal. Organization members said they worry the chair may be eliminated because of a lack of funds...
...ETHNIC VENDETTAS IN YUGOSLAVIA'S SPLINTERing republics are sowing more death, this time in newly independent, Muslim-dominated Bosnia-Herzegovina. In | the small town of Bijeljina, where Serbs and Muslims have lived side by side for centuries, independence has bloodied the community, as irregular militias fight to remain linked with neighboring Serbia. After a Muslim grenade exploded in a Serb-owned cafe last week, killing several customers, heavily armed Serbian commandos slaughtered civilian Muslims and took over the town, invading the local mosque and tearing down the Islamic flag. In Bosnia's current state of lawlessness, guerrillas enter at will...
Officially, the Islamic Movement's main mission is to revitalize religion among the Muslims of Israel, who constitute 86% of the Arab population; the rest are Christian. But it also supports the establishment of a Palestinian state in the occupied territories, a view held by the vast majority of Israeli Arabs -- who simultaneously say they would not live there. Beyond that, the Islamic Movement, like its counterparts elsewhere, supports the idea of a Muslim regime eventually ruling the entire Middle East -- including Israel and its Jewish majority. Says Abdul-Rahman Hashem, deputy mayor of Umm el-Fahm, an Arab town...
When Turkish Premier Suleyman Demirel ruled out granting full autonomy to 10 million Turkish Kurds last week, his decision marked yet another crushing blow to this long-suffering Muslim people with a distinct language and history of its own. Demirel's announcement came in the wake of the worst fighting between the Turkish government forces and Kurdish guerrillas since...